Five-Year Departmental Evaluation Plan for Global Affairs Canada Programs
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Description
An annual evaluation plan published by Global Affairs Canada, identifying planned mandatory and discretionary program reviews. The plan serves as an information and management tool, reflecting the results of the department's annual evaluation planning exercise. It is intended to provide information on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the department's programs, policies, and initiatives.
Use Cases
Analyze trends in government program evaluation priorities based on the annual planning cycle.
Study the assessment of program relevance and effectiveness as described in the plan.
Research public sector management tools and information frameworks for policy initiatives.
Strengths
Plan is updated annually, suggesting a regular review cycle.
Explicitly covers four key evaluation criteria: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.
Published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, permitting reuse.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Collection Method
Likely contains structured text from an annual departmental planning exercise.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-21 13:03:35.199018; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Canada
Data is provided in HTML format, which may require parsing to extract structured information.